Your Brain on Innovation

AUTHOR(S)

Singer, Thea

PUB. DATE

September 2002

SOURCE

Inc.;Sep2002, Vol. 24 Issue 9, p86

SOURCE TYPE

Periodical

DOC. TYPE

Article

ABSTRACT

Presents ideas from quintessential innovator Ray Kurzweil on how to formulate solutions to problems in business. Discussion of lucid dreaming; Ability of the brain to create new circuits, a phenomenon known as plasticity; Details of a brain-imaging experiment conducted by the Medical Research Council in Cambridge, England; Information on how the brain of an innovative entrepreneur works. INSET: Ray Kurzweil's Brain on Innovation.

ACCESSION #

7266724

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